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Comment by socialismisok | Hacker News Reader

I thought I had to keep the dog and rabbits separate, which really stumped me for a bit.

It would be neat if the conditional statements emphasized and deemphasized based on whether their condition was currently met.

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I made the same assumption and didn't even try putting the dog and rabbits together, but I completed the puzzle (at least I'm pretty sure I didn't overlap them, there was a lot of back and forth)

I find it amusing that this is driven by the particular visualisations of the characters. I.e. if it were a chicken and a rabbit would you have also made this assumption?

I didn't even realize two animals could be on the same node at all until I needed to get both rabbits to the carrot.

For me it's a variant of a classical "move a wolf, goat and cabbage across the river", where you can't have some of them on the boat together, because it would be eaten.

A fun Easter egg would be to have the dog eat the rabbit if both of them are on the boat node.

If it was a chicken and rabbit I think I would have tried to overlap them

I did keep them separate, but still solved it.

How do I interact with the website? It's just a static image for me

On mobile Firefox for me after a while I worked out it was drag and drop on the characters

I’m on iPhone but it’s just tap-and-drag for me

I had the same problem. I was trying to click on things but not drag. Maybe if one of the animals is clicked but not dragged, it could expand and immediately get small, as if it had been dragged 0 pixels?

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